• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    Ex-christian here. Jesus wasn’t a doormat and didn’t advocate for others to be doormats. Just because the powerful in society have cultivated their way of reading the new testament doesn’t mean you have to agree with their interpretation. Again and again and again, Jesus speaks out against wealth and power, and got crucified after he pissed off the money changers. Ofc, Jesus isn’t actually followed by Christians outside of the crucifixion bit; who they really follow is Paul, who was actually pretty cool with wealth, power, and the status quo.

    In case you’re wondering, my disagreements with the Christian community at large are a big part (but not the only part) of why I’m no longer a Christian. The guy I read about and the guy they seem to be thinking of are two different people. The guy I read about would be chasing the republicans with whips.

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      2 months ago

      Even Jesus had his heated moments. Going by the stories, didn’t Jesus fly into a rage and literally flip tables just because he didn’t like seeing people making money in a temple?

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        It wasn’t just people making money, it was that the money changers and the temple were working together to fleece the devout who were coming from far away to show their faith.

        It’s not like if somebody had a for-profit Cafe inside a church, it’s more like the televangelist that use other peoples’ devotion to get rich, saying you have to pay more and more to get into heaven.

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      The guy I read about and the guy they seem to be thinking of are two different people.

      I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ - Mohandas Gandhi

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      2 months ago

      Jesus would beat modern Christians to death with his bare hands. I guess that’s why he’s supposed to be wrathful when he returns.

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        Eh people overblow what Jesus did to the moneychangers and merchants in the temple. Yeah he made a whip and used it to drive the animals out, and he flipped over the tables scattering the money everywhere. But he never tried to to hurt people, just get them out of the temple and disrupt all the commerce going on.

        Jesus Christ Superstar’s temple scene is probably the most accurate recreation of that passage as written in the Bible. He trashed all the stuff, flipped tables and sent everyone else away. He wouldn’t have beaten people to death, that’s not the message he preached or the actions he took.

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      my disagreements with the Christian community at large are a big part (but not the only part) of why I’m no longer a Christian. The guy I read about and the guy they seem to be thinking of are two different people.

      Same. I still remember the day that I basically paraphrased a Jesus quote in a discussion of current events with my family, and someone asked me if I was some kind of communist and multiple others piled on with no one coming to my defense.

      Apparently, actually believing the shit they taught me makes me some kind of radical…